In his presentation Thomas Nordmann discusses the potential and possible negative aspects of BIPV in view of the building market. Issues that are being discussed are:
Why is Building Integrated PV (BIPV) so important for the PV community?
How to evaluate BIPV, roof mounted PV and ground mounted PV?
How can we describe our PV cosmos today?
Three particular cases:
Financial engineering
Project development
Value and technology
Normann concludes that - with ongoing economical progress - roof mounted PV & BIPV installations are the next hot “multi GW” targets. In the next 5-7 years, these PV installations will become cost effective in the European Sunbelt for many private electicity users; even without rate-based incentives!